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Social Ethics

Social ethics is the branch of ethics that focuses, not the actions of individuals but to groups, social bodies and institutions.

Summary

1 Introduction
2 Ethics and corporate social
3 Rating
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 External link

Introduction

Social ethics is for the applied ethics but also to the normative ethics. It is concerned with applied ethics insofar as it deals with ethical issues and problems specific and concrete. But it falls within normative ethics because, unlike the descriptive ethics , which (among others) discusses the moral codes of the bodies and social institutions, social ethics wondered how far institutional complexes are fair and if they can not be reformed.

The word "social" can be interpreted in the sense of labor relations. It is mainly in the sense that the labor law has been developed since the second half of the ^nineteenth century with the development of major social laws ( Albert de Mun ).

Since the year in 1980 - 1990 has emerged the concept of sustainable development , which comprises three pillars: environmental, social, economic. Sustainable development applies to both public agencies and businesses. The latter were asked to identify ethical charters. In this sense, business ethics would be a cross between an environmental ethics , social ethics, and financial ethics.

Another question that arises is that of the meaning of the word "social". It can also be understood in a sense broader, including the stakeholders of a business or public administration , because, in a spirit of " social responsibility ", corporations are accountable for the social and environmental activity, according to the Law on New Economic Regulations (NRE, 2001 ) in France.

The French language makes fairly good account of this semantic difference. It was introduced from the year 2000 about the term "societal", to distinguish it from the word social. Societal issues reflect the impact on society in general, not only on internal company activities that have more "social".